The annual Big Day Out festival swept through both Sydney and Melbourne over the Australia Day long weekend, with the amazing mainstage performance from Rage Against the Machine and Carl Cox’s closing set in the Boiler Room counting as highlights. You can check out the Melbourne photos HERE while the review is HERE, while for Sydney coverage you can check out the photos HERE and read the ITM review HERE.
Judging by the discussion in the Sydney forum thread, the most memorable moment of last Friday’s Big Day Out was undoubtedly when the reunited Rage Against the Machine brought it home on the main stage. These are sentiments that our ITM reviewer certainly agreed with: “The band dynamics were so tight it was like they’d never broken up: like watching an old jazz band, where the members don’t even need to look at each other to initiate progression in the song… The seething anger in their delivery reached its peak with the rapturously received encore of Killing In The Name Of, and it was something that you just had to be there to experience.”
And veteran DJ Carl Cox might have headlined the Boiler Room several times before, but this didn’t stop him from leaving a big impression on the 25,000+ people that had gathered in the massive warehouse-style space by the end of the night. And it was both looking and sounding better than it ever has before, boasting some of the most impressive production that has ever been seen at a large-scale dance event.
Reports have just started to flow in from Monday’s Big Day Out event in Melbourne (check the forum thread HERE), but the crowd was lucky enough to experience one important thing that Sydney punters were denied: after cancelling her Friday Big Day Out performance, Icelandic pop princess Bjork made a miraculous recovery and was fit and well for the Melbourne show. “Bjork. What a performance,” raved a user in the forums. “Easily up there with the best, the show was a perfect story.”
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